POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) is an initiative to recognize and reward innovative technical research excellence in power system by discovering and encouraging fresh Doctoral/Masters research accomplishments in power system and related field. This project is a joint venture of Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO), a subsidiary of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (POWERGRID), and Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT, Delhi.

Susmita Kar carried out research on “Development of Micro-grid Protection Schemes " and Pankaj Dilip Achlerkarcarried out research on “Variational Mode Decomposition Based Disturbance Detection in Micro-grid” under the supervision of Dr S R Samantaray.

Susmita will receive a cash award of Rs 60,000 and a citation and, Pankaj will receive a cash award of Rs 30,000 and a citation.